The South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) will be putting up safety messages on 'Retro Reflective Sign Boards' at different locations of its Gevra mining project in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, of

Lanco has received 2-year extension of environment clearance validity, with certain conditions, for its 1,320 MW thermal power plant in Maharashtra.

The coal mining proposals belonged to south eastern coalfields, Madhya Pradesh, eastern coalfields in Godda district, Jharkhand and to central coalfields in Bokaro.

Around 12 million tonnes of coal was lost due to the absence of regulatory clearances in 2013-14 The Hindu has learnt.

Coal India (CIL) is planning to move court against the Madhya Pradesh government decision defining coal as a biological resource and warning of imposing a benefit-sharing levy on state-run coal com

Korba: While Parliament remains stalled over the CAG report on coal block allocations, a land acquisition row threatens to disrupt production at India’s largest open cast coal mine.

The development comes ahead of CIL's board meeting to approve FSA with power companies

Coal India (CIL) has agreed to certain changes in the fuel supply pact to be entered with state-nominated agencies. "Model Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) applicable for state-nominated agencies has been agreed by CIL in its meeting," the PSU firm said in a letter to its subsidiary firms including Eastern Coalfields, Central Coalfields and Western Coalfields among others.

Power generation was hit at the 2,600 MW National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ramagundam due to poor supply of coal from the Singareni Collieries Company limited and other coal agencies during this rainy season.

Presently, the NTPC Ramagundam was generating only 2,000 MWs against its installed capacity of 2,600 MWs due to shortage of coal. The power generation would further come down with the authorities planning to go in for annual overhaul of the seventh unit of 500 MWs from Tuesday late night onwards.

The government is considering allowing power and steel companies to swap their coal linkages among group entities, subsidiaries and special purpose vehicles, in a bid to optimise fuel availability and cut down the restrictive transportation charges.

At present, coal linkages given to companies (mainly in power, steel and cement sectors) are exclusive to a particular project. These linkages are non-transferable even between group companies. “We are examining a proposal on swap/transfer of allocated domestic coal linkages to reduce transportation cost and put domestic coal to best possible use,” said a coal ministry official.